Michel Serrault
Acting
Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films. His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin. In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Robert Dhéry in Les Branquignols. His first film was Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954. Serrault played in the 1955 suspense thriller Les diaboliques, starring Simone Signoret and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. From February 1973 through 1978, he portrayed the role of Albin/Zaza opposite Jean Poiret in the play La cage aux folles, written by Poiret. He recreated the role for the film version of the play, which was released in 1978. In 1977-1978 he played the composer Jacques Offenbach in a six-part series of one-hour episodes about the musician's life, each one focusing on a specific aspect or work. Serrault died from relapsing polychondritis at his home in Équemauville on 29 July 2007 at age 79. He was buried in Sainte-Catherine's cemetery in Honfleur and was transferred in 2009 to the cemetery of Neuilly-sur-Seine near his wife Juanita Saint-Peyron and daughter Caroline, who died in 1977. He had another daughter, actress Nathalie Serrault. Source: Article "Michel Serrault" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Merci Zaza - La Folle Histoire de la Cage aux Folles
Self / Zaza Napoli / Albin (archive footage)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Self (archive footage)
Antonio Vivaldi - A Prince in Venice
L'archevêque de Venise
Le Bénévole
Max Birgos
Have Mercy on Us All
Hervé Decambrais
L'Avare
Harpagon
Les enfants du pays
Gustave
Monsieur Léon
Docteur Léon Chapuis
Joyeux Noel
The Castle Keeper
Grabuge!
Commissaire Lancret
Albert est méchant
Albert Moulinot
Le Furet
Anzio
L'Affaire Dominici
Gaston Dominici
The Butterfly
Julien
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
Louis
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Self (archive footage)
Vajont
L'Ingegner Carlo Semenza
The Girl from Paris
Adrien Rochas
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
Verlac
Un cœur oublié
Monsieur de Fontenelle
Actors
Michel Serrault
The Libertine
Le Cardinal
Marty's World
Antoine Berrant
The Children of the Marshland
Hyacinthe Richard, aka 'Pépé la Rainette'
The Comedian
Le comédien
The Swindle
Victor
Artemisia
Orazio Gentileschi
Assassin(s)
Mr. Wagner
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Louis XV
Happiness Is in the Field
Francis Bergeade
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Mr. Pierre Arnaud
Tel est Serrault
Self
Bonsoir
Alex Ponttin
Old Rascal
Darius Caunes
Room Service
M. Luc
Ville à vendre
Rousselot, le maire
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea
Pompilius
Héloïse
Maurice Martin, Héloïse
L'Huissier
Maître Malicorne
Dr. Petiot
Docteur Petiot
Merry Christmas... Happy New Year
Gino
Love Comedy
Paul Léautaud
Let Sleeping Cops Lie
Roger Scatti
Bonjour l'angoisse
Michaud
No Harm Intended
Paul Duchêne
Ennemis intimes
Baudin
Miracle Healing
Ronald Fox-Terrier
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
Octave Clapoteau
La Cage aux Folles 3
Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
He Died with His Eyes Open
Robert Staniland
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Louis XVI
Les Rois du gag
Gaëtan / Robert Wellson
Good King Dagobert
Otarius
Kill the Referee
Rico, aggressive supporter
Le Bon Plaisir
Le ministre de l'Intérieur
Deadly Circuit
Louis Beauvoir, ' l'Œil '
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Jules César
The Roaring Forties
Sébastien Barral
The Hatter's Ghost
Léon Labbé
Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Nestor Burma
The Inquisitor
Jérôme Martinaud
Malevil
Emmanuel Comte
La Cage aux Folles II
Albin Mougeotte / 'Zaza Napoli'
Heads or Tails
Édouard Morlaix
Il lupo e l'agnello
Léon
Buffet Froid
Le comptable
The Other One's Mug
Martial Perrin/Gilbert Brossard
The Associate
Julien Pardot
La Grâce
Henri Dupérier
L'Esprit de famille
le docteur Charles Moreau
La Cage aux Folles
Zaza
Other People's Money
Miremant
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
le voisin
Le Passe-muraille
Dutilleul
Le Roi des bricoleurs
Bordin
La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée
Jean-Pierre Mazard
The Red Ibis
Jérémie
The Restroom Robbery
Max
No Pockets in a Shroud
Justin Blesh
Operation Lady Marlene
Paulo
La Gueule de l’emploi
L'inspecteur de police
Bloody Murder
Edouard Henricot
Chinese In Paris
Grégoire Montclair
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Jean-Paul Rondin
The Big Store
Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché
Big Deal
Paul
La Cage aux folles
Albin aka 'Zaza Napoli'
Moi y'en a vouloir des sous
Le curé Léon
A Murder Is a Murder
Le commissaire Plouvier / Superintendant
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Marcel Jolin
The Annuity
Louis Martinet
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Achille
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Alfred Mullanet
La Liberté en croupe
Paul Cérès
Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Gabriel Pelletier
Call Me Mathilde
François
Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Commissaire Le Gac
Would-Be Gentleman
M. Jourdain
The Great Chase
Aldo Moreni
The Men in the Family
Gabriel Pelletier
Cette nuit-là à Bethléem
The Madman of Lab Four
Mr. Granger, director of the scientific laboratory
Loose in the Trigger
The armorer
The Great Gadget
Pounet
Pour avoir Adrienne
Thomeret
Order of the Daisy
L'inspecteur Papin
King of Hearts
Monsieur Marcel
Les enquiquineurs
Martin - instituteur
The Boss of Champignol
Hector
Les Combinards
La père de Lucile
When the Pheasants Pass
Rimero
Under Your Hat
Gaston Berrien / Monsieur Max
The Double Bed
Albert
Le petit monstre
Valet
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Méloune
Me and the Forty Year Old Man
Bénéchol
The Real Bargain
Hutin
Les baratineurs
Henri
Male Hunt
Gaston Lartois
Clémentine chérie
Maître Brunet
Jaloux comme un tigre
Mr. Lurot
Hard Boiled Ones
Rossignol, private detective
Dandelions by the Roots
Jérôme Martinet, contrebassiste et comédien
How Do You Like My Sister?
Varangeot
Bebert and the Train
Barthoin
Carom Shots
Le commissaire Baudu
We Will Go to Deauville
Lucien Moreau
The Four Truths
Corbeau (segment "Le corbeau et le renard")
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Charpentier, le conférencier
How to Succeed in Love
Commissioner
Love on a Pillow
Varange
The Dance
Pétrarque
The American Beauty
Tramp
My Wife Is a Panther
Butcher
On purge bébé
Guillaume Chouilloux
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Le second policier / Policeman
Love and the Frenchwoman
L'avocat de Danielle (segment "Le Divorce")
La Malle volante
M. Loiseau
You Have Nothing to Declare?
Dr. Emile Couzan
The Bureaucrats
le conservateur du musée de Vallembrais / Son petit-fils
Oh! What a Mambo
L'inspecteur Vidalie
Nina
Adolphe Tessier
L'anglais tel qu'on le parle
Eugène, l'interprète
Clara and the Villains
'La Parole'
Musée Grévin
The visitor
The Innocent with Forty Children
Jean-François Robignac
Adorables démons
Jacques Willis Senior
L'Habit vert
Count Hubert de Latour-Latour
The Terror with Women
Gendarme
Murderers and Thieves
Albert Lecagneux, le cambrioleur
Life is beautiful
le démarcheur
Mon bébé
Jimmy Scott
That Naughty Girl
Inspector Leduc
Diabolique
Mr. Raymond
Peek-a-boo
Serrault, le trompettiste
What the East Wind Saw
Zamore